A “serious software error” in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to 6,600 people who indicated they were not citizens to be wrongly registered to vote, according to the state’s governor.
Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill said in a statement Tuesday that the error was discovered last week and that she has replaced the vendor responsible and taken those voters off the rolls.
‘They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.’
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“These individuals answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for driver’s licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway,” Sherrill said.
Sherrill said the registrations occurred between June 2023 and June 2024, years before she
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